Spinach Dip (Popeye Would Be Proud)
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I’m going to tell y’all something today and I need this to stay just between us. You see, I love Alabama. I have lived in Alabama all of my life (except for a three month sabbatical to Georgia) and I plan on spending the rest of my days residing in this great state. If this secret gets out, though, I just might be deported.
~takes a deep breath~
Here goes: I don’t watch football.
~exhales~
Whew! That felt good to get off my chest! Not only do I not watch football, I don’t even care about football. Whats worse than that, I think of Alabama and Auburn as the school you go to if you want to be a lawyer/doctor and the school you go to if you want to be a Veterinarian/Engineer.
This drives my son stark raving mad. Just about everyone in Alabama follows football religiously and you’d have a hard time finding a house who didn’t support Bama or Auburn. The rivalry is legendary. My son wants so badly to know where we stand and whenever he asks which is the best, my reply is “Well, that depends on what you want to be when you grow up. They’re both good schools”.
Yeah, I know, I’m awful. Most of my family are Bama fans (Roll Tide! for y’all…) but I’m married to an engineer and and navy is my favorite color (War Eagle! for y’all…). I’m awful, I know. Trust me, I live with my shame (I have just been told to state that the two male beings residing in this house are Georgia fans. Well heck, I’m a Georgia fan, too. I love to go to Georgia. There is some awesome shopping in Atlanta and have any of y’all been to the North Georgia Premium Outlet mall? It sooo rocks…oh wait. I have just been told the “Georgia fan” thing was a reference to football. ~sighs~.)
I actually called my husband and asked him if the super bowl was this week because I had been seeing commercials and blog posts about it. I may not be a football fan, but I AM a football FOOD fan! So, in honor of the Super Bowl (which I am told is this Sunday), I am posting a recipe for classic spinach dip. For all you football fans, don’t ever second guess whether or not to invite me to a football party because I just look at this as another great occasion to make food for and show up loaded down with dishes! You watch the game, I’ll serve. Gosh, I love to feed people.
Oh, and I just broke my rule again of not discussing Politics, Religion, Football, or Pyramid marketing schemes on Southern Plate (cause either of those’ll gitcha good and kil’t in the south!). So far I’ve broken it twice and football was the cause each time. Maybe I’m more of a sports person than I thought…
You’ll need: Mayonnaise, Sour Cream, Green Onions, Spinach, and Knorr Vegetable Soup mix. That’s right, this recipe is right off the Knorr package. Hey, its good and its simple, and you know I’m all about not over complicating things!
The original recipe calls for water chestnuts but I shudder at the thought of ever eating a water chestnut so I always leave them out. A great substitution if you still want that crunch (and don’t like water chestnuts) is to add slivered almonds. YUM!
This is what your spinach is gonna look like in the box. Thaw it well. I place mine in a plastic bag and stick it in the fridge overnight to do this.
Now you’ve got to squeeze all of the juice out of your spinach. Its amazing how many tools we can do without in the kitchen if we just get in there and use our hands!
Once it is squeezed dry, you’ll have this.
Add sour cream.
and your green onions. To chop mine, I just use kitchen shears and cut them over the bowl.
Add mayonnaise.
and your vegetable soup mix.
Stir and you have spinach dip! Let this sit in the fridge for several hours to allow the flavors to blend. I like to make mine the day before. This can be served warm or cold. Those Great Value brand wheat crackers at Wally World are excellent with this!
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My brother’s sense of humor. He put this on the sign by his BBQ restaurant and has had folks stopping all week to have their picture made next to it! No, we don’t really eat possum in Alabama, but we do like to make folks wonder!
I have been looking for this dip recipe. Thanks for sharing. I love football and I look forward to making this dip Saturday. (I like the flavors to blend). Your brother has my vote for “fun guy who loves life” Thank you again for all the wonderful recipes you share with us and the tutorials are perfect. Your humor is probably what I enjoy most. Have a great day!!!!
ROFL about the football thing!
I love spinach dip.. you are battin a thousand with the last few post as far as what I like (Get your husband to explain the battin a thousand thing if ya need to, no chauvinism implied)
I just made the deep dish.. it was really good! Thanks again.
Oh yeah.. the possum thing.. We have them here. One day I opened my garage and found a HUGE possum standing between me and my car door. That sucker was-a foamin at the mouth and it hissed at me. I screamed like a 12 year old girl at a Justin Timberlake concert.
Bill,
ROTFLMBO – and my daughter wants to know whats so funny! I love it! I could just picture you “screaming like a 12 year old at a Justing Timberlake concert”. It’s rather hillarious! Thanks for the laugh!
jan
Yep I came eye to eye with a mad possum once and it made me scream just like that. haha.. loved your post.. I pulled down a box off of a shelf in the garage and there he was in that box and we were nose to nose…. didn’t take me very long to finish lookin at him and leave the garage. My daddy was laughing his head off at me.. Wasn’t fun when it happened but now its a fond memory of my Daddy…
Thanks for the laugh
Jo in Oklahoma…
Bill you are behind the times brother, it’s a “12 yr old girl at a Justin Bieber concert”
I too am not a football fan, and I was lucky enough to find a husband that wants nothing to do with the game either. But I do enjoy snacks! This dip looks really yummy, spinach dip is one of my favorites. I do have to admit that I would probably enjoy it with water chestnuts, though almonds would be good too. Hmm, maybe it would be good with both…
I love your brother’s sign! That’s too funny. 🙂
The Super Bowl is THIS weekend? No wonder Wally World has all their good snacky stuff on special shelves in the middle of everything. 🙂 The dip looks yummy!
Thanks for sharing. My husband loves this dip. We are not big into the super bowl thing , but we do like the food that comes with it. My family is more in to railfanning and trying to capture the perfect train pic. It can be exciting. God Bless and Happy cooking :o)
Good Morning Christy…
My nameis Linda Madden… I currently live in Keithville La, but I’m a transport from Northern California in the wine country area.It’s the most beautiful part of California I think.
This spinach dip has been one of my all time favorite for years. What we do is take a big round French Bread…. Hollow it out and serve the Spinach dip inside the Round French Bread. Use the pieces you cut out of the bread for dipping into the dip.
Anyway…. Just a different way to serve the dip…
Thanks for all your Wonderful recipes… I print most of them out and have a HUGE binder full.
You’ve helped me in so many ways when I didn’t know how to prepard something Southern. Beings that I’m from the West Coast.
Thanks again for all your hard work.
Blessings to you and your family.
Linda Madden
Keithville La.
Don’t worry not a football fan either…and I live a hop skip and a jump from UGA (tells you how in the dark I am, we moved to Dacula in the heart of football season, figures we had to go look at the house the Saturday of the Tech/GA game(major rivalry) took me forever to figure out what was going on (you would think that I would have paid attention to the fact that EVERY car had a goofy looking flag on it))
Anyway, shopping, the outlets are dangerous I tell ya, but FAB…the dip looks yummy, gotta try it, have you found a Smothered Pork Chop recipe? or a Corned Beef? I have been dying for both (plus I just got a really cool new crock pot that needs to be put to work)
Erica 🙂
Should I use 10 or 16 oz. spinach?
Paula